Microsoft's e-mail service finally supports IMAP. Here's how to add your account to Thunderbird or another desktop mail client. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...

Microsoft Outlook receives and delivers messages over a mail server, a remote computer that acts as a Web-based post office. Email providers such as Yahoo, Google and Hotmail host these servers to ...

Wayne Zimmerman’s wife usually reads email on her own PC. But when she tries to read it on her husband’s PC, the messages get mixed up. I’m going to guess that your wife’s email client software is ...

Q: What’s the difference between POP and IMAP email settings, and which will work best for my business? A: There’s only one person who can start off a conversation about email protocols by saying, ...

Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few stories and discussions online centering around the always popular debate about whether to use IMAP or POP3 for email. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, IMAP ...

I presently receive my email from several servers accessible via POP3. At home, I use kmail to download email from each of these servers, and have a pretty large archive of saved messages in KMails ...